NO, THE Singaporean woman is not the ideal marriage partner.
That was the response straitstimes.com received from its readers
through a poll tagged to the article titled 'Singaporean women: the
perfect partner?'.
A whopping 73.29 per cent disagreed with a report released by an
unnamed international dating agency that claimed local women
possessed the 'most ideal' qualities namely beauty, loyalty,
adherence to tradition, initiative and fluency in English, hence
the label of 'perfect partner'.
A number of readers were quite critical of Singaporean women.
Wen Wei wrote on Facebook: 'The report should be written as: Are
Singaporean women the most pampered?' Nine others decided to 'like'
his statement on Facebook. Echoing Wen Wei's sentiments, Massi
Rites wrote: 'Materialistic I must say. Majority of Singapore women
seek men with cars. Public transport is a no-no.'
Only 25.55 per cent voted 'Yes'. Eu Jin Gabriel Tan sportingly
wrote: ' I support local produce.' Kelvin Lee wrote: 'Heck, I ain't
complaining. I married one!'
Ph Koh wrote: 'Beauty is in the eye of the beholder. There is no
such thing as a perfect partner. Gotta work work work on it - takes
mutual effort.'
The remaining 1.48 per cent decided to sit on the fence. Steve
Boyce, who married a Singapore Eurasian, wrote: 'She certainly is
not pampered. I didn't specifically seek a Singaporean wife though.
It's just how things happened.' Taking a more holistic approach,
Xavier Tan wrote: 'It depends on how they're brought up.' John Tang
wrote: 'Perfect but many stay single.'
-- ST
